Wood Elves Rumor Roundup

[mirbeau]

He is referring to the two units on both sides of the obvious wardancer lord.

Yeah, that's new. Looks… off though.

[Wildeybeast]

Luckily the old wood elf stuff looks still good. The colours so far used are a little to bright for my liking.

Wel some of it does. That war dancer character is the same colour scheme as before though. I don't think they have updated the model, I suspect it's still in metal.

[Wildeybeast]

Though that model has disappeared form the website now.

In other website news, wild riders are no longer available, so probably a kit coming soon. Interestingly glade riders are listed as out of stock, despite being a plastic kit, so I would expect to see them in a combi kit with wild riders. The sisters on dragon and Drycha are also out of stock, along with one of the male wizards, though those were are all metal models so we not necessarily be getting new kits. Everything else still seems to be in stock, including wardancers and war hawk riders, which were both rumoured to be getting new kits. Make of that what you will.

[Mr Mystery]

Yeah, that's new. Looks… off though.

That'd be Eternal Guard then. Which of course were dropped. Rumours don't lie!

[pgarfunkle]

I'm hoping that the new looking unit in the picture are plastic eternal guard and yes the shadow dancer picture does from what I can tell look exactly like an existing model

[Proteus]

EDIT: what I saw was fan-made apparently.

I like the models though.

The new plastic named Lord - sleek and sexy while showing the "feral" side of the Asrai. Continues the trend of WE having the nicest character kits out there.

The Eternal Guard - will need some better pics, but it seems like a step down from the old, helmeted design. Not lamenting though, couse it still looks like a very sleek, sexy elven unit.

The Treeman - the model itself and the quality of the sculpt is absolutely wonderfull, but it's the idea behind the kit that's a bit ill suited for a Treeman in my opinion. If this was supposed to be some "spirit of the woods", green-avatar creature, then it would be a 10/10 (the sneak pictures showing the "ancient treeman" look especially imposing, something that would be worthy of FW Monster Series), but for a Wood Elves Treeman I would personally prefer something less humanoid. It's not a completely bad idea though, and like I said, I think the execution is perfect, so I'll probably be buying this kit.

All in all, excited for the new release.

[Brother Sutek]

I'm hoping that the new looking unit in the picture are plastic eternal guard and yes the shadow dancer picture does from what I can tell look exactly like an existing model

As I have 70+ Eternal Guard I hope we have them in this book.

[pgarfunkle]

Looks like Wood Elves will have access to the 8 basic lores of magic as well as High and Dark but will lose the Lore of Athel Loren

[URL="http://plastickrak.blogspot.fr/2014/04/wood-elves-magic-lores-everything.html"]http://plastickrak.blogspot.fr/2014/04/wood-elves-magic-lores-everything.html[/URL]

Thanks to user Xlatoc over on asrai.org for the link

[Bigred]

Week 1 Wood Elves Releases
via [URL="http://latabernadelaurana.blogspot.com/"]lataburnadellaurana[/URL]

Warhammer: Wood Elves : Army Book full color, hardcover, 92 pages €39
Battle Magic: Elves: 16 magic cards, €6
Araloth the Sorcerer: New Character, plastic clampack, Wizard and falcon. €17.50
Ancient Treeman: Reissue of old Man Tree, triple option box, can create: TreeMan, Treeman Ancient, or Durthu a character €50

[Brother Sutek]

-Looks like Wood Elves will have access to the 8 basic lore of magic as well as High and Dark but will lose the Lore of Athel Loren


+++ The amazing thing of being able to field level 1 or 2 magi that use main book lore is something I've/we've waited on for years! Good times are here Hopefully there will still be an option to use eagles as mounts for spellcasters. I am wishlisting for character flyers to be able to join units of flyers, warhawks/eagles to warhawks/eagles but we shall see.